Monthly Dues and Bylaws Maintenance

MassLandlords has been running well! But it has been seven years since the bylaws were last updated, and we need to do some maintenance. At this meeting members will have a chance to review nine changes proposed to the MassLandlords bylaws.

The complete list of proposed changes is:

  1. Offer an option of monthly dues in addition to annual dues.
  2. Have the President, Treasurer and Secretary be decided apolitically based on seniority.
  3. Formalize the Executive Director role, which was created in 2014 by Board resolution but which isn't in the bylaws.
  4. Protect membership lists from marketers.
  5. Use score voting (rating candidates and choices, as we already do).
  6. Simplify annual meeting schedules to line up with state reporting requirements.
  7. Expand our legal mission to recognize the Certified Massachusetts Landlord™.
  8. Allow message board admins to curtail services without terminating membership, for instance, to pause access to the message boards following a "three strike" process.
  9. Require members receive advance notice of proposals to change the bylaws.

The changes proposed are available for members to read online in Microsoft Word redline format.

 

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